Quotes About Recognition

the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising that the person sitting there was a stranger. That, I think, describes best what Archie was like when he came. He went through the motions of ordinary greetings, but he was, quite simply, not Archie.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn't recognize my own mother when a press photographer had done with her.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

They say of me: 'That is Hercule Poirot!—The great—the unique!—There was never anyone like him, there never will be!' Eh bien—I am satisfied. I ask no more. I am modest.

He's not likely to recognize you. After all, one young man is much like another." "I repudiate that remark utterly. I'm sure my pleasing features and distinguished appearance would single me out from any crowd.

Bir sanatç?n?n doyum bulmas?, yap?t?n?n ba?kalar? taraf?ndan be?enilmesi, alk??lanmas?yla olanakl?d?r ancak. Bunu yeni anl?yorum. Ben de, zekâm ve kurnazl???mdan ötürü hayranl?k toplamak isteyen bir zavall?y?m.

You know, Maureen, I seem to have seen that name somewhere." "Home Perm, perhaps. He looks like a hairdresser." Poirot winced.

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

But then, how do you know?' 'Because I am Hercule Poirot! I do not need to be told.

I am in my own line a celebrated person—I may say a most celebrated person. My gifts, in fact, are unequalled!

People take you at your own valuation.

But no artist, I now realise, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gainsaid.

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognise it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

It is always easier, Madame, to tell a thing to someone who already has a very good idea of what it is.

No se reconocen los momentos realmente importantes en la vida hasta que es demasiado tarde.

Like all men, he was a spoilt child; he expected everybody to make a fuss of him.

I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been…

I can't really go along with this modern playing down of evil as something that doesn't really exist. There is evil. And evil is powerful. Sometimes more powerful than good. It's there. It has to be recognised – and fought. Otherwise -' he spread out his hands.'We go down to darkness

Father looked thoughtfully at the two women facing him. Mother and daughter. There was, he noted, a strong superficial likeness between them. He could understand how for one moment in the fog he had taken Elvira Blake for Bess Sedgwick.

Why, if it isn't Mr. Poirot!" cried the Inspector. He turned to the other man. "You've heard me speak of Mr. Poirot? It was in 1904 he and I worked together — the Abercrombie forgery case — you remember, he was run down in Brussels. Ah, those were great days, moosier.

His name, he noted with chagrin, made no particular impression on her. The younger generation, he could not but feel, were singularly lacking in knowledge of notable celebrities

They exchanged a quick smile - a brief recognition of the fact that each was glad of the other's presence

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.